user zeno     <a href="http://sontida.googlepages.com">Learn Spanish in Washington, DC</a> <font size=1>I got married to <b>Sònia Salas Vilches</b> of Barcelona, Spain, 28 December 2000 (<i>el día de los santos inocentes-- ¡pero no era una inocentada!)</i></font> <hr> <h3>Welcome Home! About [zeno]...</h3> <p>I founded the <a href="http://barcelona.pm.org" target="_blank">Barcelona Perl Mongers</a>. Now I live in Washington, DC.</b></p> <p>I also hang out at [http://www.javajunkies.org] where I'm known as (you guessed it) [http://www.javajunkies.org/index.pl?node=zeno|zeno].</p> <p>Zeno of Elea was a philosopher who came up with a "proof" that motion was inherently impossible. The paradox figures heavily in one of my favorite books: <i>Gödel, Escher, Bach</i> by Douglas Hofstadter.</p> <a href="http://timothychenallen.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><h3>My Home Page</h3></a> <h3>What I'm cooking up in perl now:</h3> <ul> <li>yapat - Yet Another Perl Aptitude Test! Tests perlfunc knowledge and teaches useing a weighted scoring system. This is implemented at [id://60839] <li>A module to update the InterShop 4.2 Sybase database directly (almost done!)</li> <li>Spanish Language Stuff:</li> <ul> <li>A Spanish language module, which would, among other things, return a Spanish text version of any number given to it. This is done, but I need to add an option for gender, and make it a bit more Perlish (I did this in my learning perl phase).</li> <li>...Also, a Spanish regular verb conjugator. This is dead easy. I'll try and extend this to cover common irregular verbs.</li> <li>A Spanish verb tester which would give the user a verb root, a person, and a tense, and have the person type in the correct verb form. I saw this in a translator/calculator one time, but I want a smarter one, which records your score and grills you more on the verbs you miss regularly.</li> </ul> <li>The above Spanish Language stuff in <I>Catalan!</I> <li>A program to translate time into Swatch beats (DONE!)</li> <li>A junk mail filter-- this is pretty well done, but could be a lot smarter if I could get MIME::tools to work</li> <li>Understanding OO (yes, I have the faq).</li> </ul> <h3>What I'm reading today</h3> <p>I have this bad habit of keeping four books going at once. This is probably very bad, but I can't help myself. Here it is:</p> <ul> <li><i>Ulysses</i> by James Joyce: FINISHED</li> <li><i>Gödel, Escher, Bach</i> by Douglas Hofstadter: I love this book. I got it when I was 16, when the first edition came out. I've read it all, but never from front to back! So I've decided to try reading it like a normal human being. <b>Update: FINISHED!</b></li> <li><i>Programming Perl</i> by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant. Of course.</li> <li><i>Vurt</i> by Jeff Noon (in Spanish): I lived in Barcelona for five years.</li> <li><i>Mastering Regular Expressions</i> by Jeff Friedl</li> <li><i>Weaving the Web</i> by Tim Berners-Lee</li> </ul> <h3>Stuff I like:</h3> <ul> <li>[Craft].</li> <li>Rubik's Cube: I can do it in about a two minutes twenty seconds. I started playing with this when I stopped smoking, and quickly became addicted,</li> <li>Geeky t-shirts: I have my periodic table one on now.</li> <li>Playing guitar: I've been playing acoustic since I was 11 (<strike>25</strike><strike>30</strike>31 years ago!)(I just editted this and realized I first wrote this <strike>5</strike>6 years ago!). I like James Taylor, Cat Stevens, CSN(& sometimes Y)...</li> <li>Star Trek!</li> <li>Speaking Spanish-- I lived in Spain 1999-2004. I want to learn Catalan, too.</li> <li>Perl and c++. SVGALIB</li> </ul> <h3>About me!</h3> <ul> <li>name: Tim Allen</li> <li>1986 grad of Naval Academy, CompSci.</li> <li>1986-91 Marine Corps.</li> <li>1991-93 US Peace Corps, Seychelles Islands.</li> <li>Programmed Visual Basic, then Oracle, then saw the light and started working in perl in 98.</li> <li>On <A HREF="http://prometheus.frii.com/~gnat/yapc/2000-stages/">Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington's scale</A>, I think I am a <A HREF="http://prometheus.frii.com/~gnat/yapc/2000-stages/slide25.html">Perl Adept</A></li> </ul> <h3>My Geek Code:</h3> <a href="http://www.ebb.org/cgi-bin/ungeek.cgi?geekCode=GCS%2FMU%2FO%2FL+d-+s%3A%2B%2B+a%2B+C%2B%2B%2B%2B+UBL%2B+P%2B%2B%2B%24+L%2B%2B+E---+W%2B%2B+N-+K+V+w%0D%0APS%2B%2B+PE+Y%2B+PGP+t%2B+5+X%2B+R%2B+tv+b%2B%2B%2B+DI+D%2B+G+e%2B%2B+h----+r%2B%2B%2B+y%2B%2B%2B%2B" target="_blank"><pre> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/MU/O/L d- s:++ a+ C++++ UBL+ P+++$ L++ E--- W++ N- K V w PS++ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5 X+ R+ tv b+++ DI D+ G e++ h---- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ </pre></a> 2012-05-15 13:35:53 1006 361103 173833 69 Washington, DC, USA Europe/Rome 80 on